Before I go any further in outlining the steps to living a happier, healthier life, I have to – simply HAVE to – talk about one very important thing: Shortcuts.

Yes, shortcuts. What do I mean by it? Well, when you want something really, really badly, to the degree where you would, perhaps, do anything to gain it/do it… It leads you to make some very poor choices to either achieve it (pretty rare), or fall even further away from attaining whatever it is that you want.

You guys, we’ve all been there. I have been there. I have looked at some of these weird, mystical and odd shortcuts, and wondered if it wouldn’t hurt to give them a try. I have talked to others who have tried to jump some of the steps – or force some of the steps on the staircase into existence – only to really confuse themselves in the end, and make their minds even murkier in the process.

As one Proverb states: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

Don’t fall off the path, don’t quit, don’t go looking in dark places… The waiting period is the most wonderful part, as frustrating as that may sound. It is the very moment where real changes are occurring (on a deeper, cosmic level), when your universe is reshaping and trying to conform to the new life you want to live. That you MUST live, because you are meant to.

You can’t cleanse and absolve your past by any shortcuts. I mean, I’m in my mind-twenties, and that, in and of itself, implies that I have 2 decades worth of cleansing to do (when you really think about it). I’m not even counting other situations/events where I might find myself in that I might need to whip out Ho’oponopono for. I will gain nothing by trying to quickly glean over everything from back then and slap on a band-aid, just to get ahead quicker. One of the ways that the unfolding and the biggest changes occur for you is by FACING your past, forgiving yourself, LOVING yourself, and feeling good and comfortable with totally moving on and being in the present. You MUST do this, before changing anything else in your life for the better. That is how you help attract more love, more prosperity, and more success to yourself.

After doing some more research about Gurus that help you open up chakras and the third eye and say certain phrases in order to “make” manifestation happen for you – I only saw trouble. Guys, I mean, I don’t know how smart it is to go around forcing yourself to become more powerful. The easiest way for Infinite Intelligence and for Cosmic Energy to work for you, is to go through the first few steps I have outlined in my blog. By not skipping these steps, you are ensuring that your mind becomes clearer, sharper, and more focused, and that inevitably leads to all of your cells and your body energy to vibrate at a higher frequency, leading to results. Through diligent work and focus, you reprogram your own mind – and thus, your own world – and the plants do grow, and the flowers do blossom. They bloom. I’m telling you, it’s a thing of beauty.

I’ve been doing more research on all of the energy fields in the body, and how one can open them up so that they are “rewarded quicker”… and the downsides of it isn’t really explained in sufficient enough detail for me. There is actually very little valuable information to be found, that isn’t half-formed and simple personal accounts. There isn’t much pertinent and scientific evidence out there that supports the real good that comes from doing this. From saying “Om” until your Third Eye chakra opens up, or by doing any of the other numerous things that some attempt. (Subliminal videos with the sounds and frequencies programmed in it, for one.)

Every person has their own path and I wish every one of them well, in doing whatever it is that they freely choose to do, but while science does support that certain sounds said as a mantra – or written down, in some cases – help shift your energy to call upon whatever it is that you are chanting, I, personally, would rather keep a mental line of delineation there. I tried it for a week for the sake of science, to keep an open mind (so that I know what it is that I am reporting on), but I only felt discomfort and a sense of wrongness. Now, that might not be the case for you, but for me, it didn’t feel right. It felt as though I was straying away from my natural path.

Some might say that the discomfort was simply because I wasn’t as naturally “open” to it, or that I didn’t want to explore it – that’s not true. I went into it with my eyes both open – no pun intended – and really wanting to dig my hands in there, do research, read/watch testimonials, try it a bit, and figure it all out. What I learned, was this: Don’t force these things, if you aren’t in that spiritual place, mentally and physically. Don’t force a change upon yourself that your body might not be ready for, and consider unnatural. (Kundalini Energy is one of them. The dangers of that are murky and unknown, but it can lead to nerve damage? And other unpleasant physical reactions? Yeah, don’t force it.)

Do you know what some people, who have, for example, forced their Third Eye open, say? It’s really exciting, they feel as though they are at the right place, at the right time, more often, but some also report that they hear things and perhaps see things that they weren’t prepared to see. While some Gurus try to sugarcoat is as a gift, I don’t know how thrilled I’d be to start seeing spirits and having them come to me/talk at me.

Some Gurus say that opening up the Third Eye, opens up the entire cosmos/dimensions to you. That sounds, theoretically, fascinating. It also sounds terrifying.

Also, one other thing: There is not enough warnings attached to these practices, for people who might’ve accidentally stumbled upon these videos, articles, etc. to heed to. I like parsing things out and finding out all of the working parts to something, and for me, personally, the lack of information about these energies you activate that can possibly negatively affect you, makes me think it is perhaps wiser to stick to things that are easier to understand and that you have full control over; mentally, physically, and spiritually.

I have been wanting to post about this for a week, but really haven’t found the right way to say it, so that I don’t offend anyone who might practice this and feel no adverse affects. The certain lack of information about the entirety of the subject – Third Eye, Universal Sound Mantras and what have you – also suggests to me that the vast knowledge necessary to quantify and qualify it, is still in its infancy stages.

I just ask that you all keep your own safety, health, and well-being in mind, when you dabble with the unknown. I wish you all well, truly.

And, whilst I was writing this post, I remembered and searched through my copy of Wallace Wattles’ The Science of Getting Rich, and found this gem (the book covers faith, mind programming, and other wonderful information):

“Also, postpone your investigations into the occult. Do not dabble in theosophy, Spiritualism, or kindred studies. It is very likely that the dead still live, and are near; but if they are, let them alone; mind your own business.

Wherever the spirits of the dead may be, they have their own work to do, and their own problems to solve; and we have no right to interfere with them. We cannot help them, and it is very doubtful whether they can help us, or whether we have any right to trespass upon their time if they can. Let the dead and the hereafter alone, and solve your own problem; get rich.”

–Wallace Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich

And if you Google the book and author, you will find a free link to the book as the second link. I HIGHLY recommend reading it, dear readers. It is jam-packed with amazing and useful – life-changing – information that Wallace Wattles observed and wrote about in the early 1900s. It’s one of my go-to books, even to this day. Crazy, right?

I hope this information was helpful and interesting, at the very least, and helped you get a better understanding of the subjects. If anyone has any stories to share, perhaps of their own experiences, then please feel free to share. I really and truly want to understand everything that these subjects encompass, so that I can better help and inform people, in a more objective way. I love information, I love sharing what I know from personal experiences, endless researches (from scientific journals, published authors/researchers in those niches, etc.) and whatever else that might be available to me.

Love,

Ani

P.S. I do believe in spirits and what have you, so that’s why I feel it is important that people get better informed. I also wrote this especially for people who are new to Spirituality, Mysticism, Laws of the Universe, and anything else that might pertain to those categories – and they might be looking for an “easier” way of doing things or looking for shortcuts, without doing the research and taking their full well-being into account. It can be tempting and seductive to jump in without any prior experience and knowledge, I know.

P.P.S. I made my mind up two weeks ago to finally learn to play the piano (I have been wanting to since I was a child), and my mom called me to tell me that she saw a commercial for piano lessons locally, and that she already called the lady – who sounded nice and accommodating – and set me up with private lessons starting next week! My mom also happens to know this woman from childhood, and she was a wonderful piano player (received awards, etc.), and… once you figure these things out, you realize that coincidences don’t exist. You create EVERY, SINGLE THING.

I went to Barnes and Noble today to read through/take a look at the book that Dr. Hew Len had helped – through his participation – Joe Vitale write. It’s called Zero Limits. (Joe Vitale is an author of many, many interesting books and dvds – and his work covers subjects such as living a more prosperous/meaningful life by subconscious training/rewriting, to taking care of your finances the right way… He offers a few of his books for free, I believe, and I’ll link you guys to that when the time is more appropriate and we are further ahead in our course. Or shall I say my outline? Haha, this makes my hobby sound so much more sophisticated.)

First of all, it’s a great book that covers all of Joe Vitale’s conversations of Ho’oponopono through group training and 1-on-1 sessions with Dr. Hew Len (it felt like a bit of a blessing to be reading it), but also exactly how Dr. Hew Len goes about approaching Ho’oponopono in his everyday life.

One of the key things that stood out to me, was this: Dr. Hew Len considers himself and everyone around him to be a perfect being filled with with faulty programs. (Or as Joe Vitale calls it, “viruses.”) And even though he does take 100% responsibility for the experience and acknowledges that it is an unconscious part of him and that other person that has created the “problem” – the subconscious programs – the way he cleanses it, through Ho’oponopono, is almost more effortless and hands-off (if I can describe it that way) than I thought.

Dr. Hew Len acknowledges the emotions/memories/circumstances, cleanses them with Ho’oponopono, and then lets the Divine take care of it in a way that he doesn’t always understand. All he does is clean, and then have faith the Divine will see to the rest.

And it works, make no mistake. It’s just that, in the past, my understanding of it was a bit more limited, I think. Faith plays as big of a role as the cleansing. It’s about forgiving, accepting, LOVING, thanking, and having faith that the Divine Spirit will unravel whatever it is that you are dealing with, and cleanse it absolutely.

Anyway, just wanted to share! I was so inspired after I read it, that I had to. I’ve also been immersing myself in Pranic Healing – healing the body through energy applied from another person. It is a chakra cleanse of sorts (the certified healers read a person’s aura to understand their problems so that they can resolve them/kick-start the body’s natural healing energies), and then fresh healing energy is applied to the parts of the body that need a boost to speed up the healing process. I’ve been mainly sticking with Master Stephen Co’s teachings, and it has been a blast. Might share some information about it once I am properly educated on the topic. (I’d also love to learn the practical application of it, because it is so fascinating. Looking for certified classes as I type this.)

As I said in my previous post, I’ll hopefully be covering Tapping next. There are so many gifts in this world to share, it is truly amazing.

Okay. So I had planned to go in a semi-specific order and put up a new segment/part of “Detoxing the Mind: Self-improvement made easy via readily available resources online” every few days, but… I got sidetracked. In a major way.

I was looking for a certain meditation video that dealt with explaining time suspension. Obviously, you know how it goes when you are looking for one thing on Youtube – ten minutes later, you’re looking at funny videos of kids saying this or that.

Well, I came across Dr. Pillai and his videos. In his videos, he goes into detail about universal scientific sounds, full body meditation where “light” travels through the body and into the universe, Vedic astrology, karma busting, etc. There is so much to cover, honestly. I have been spending a few days comparing and contrasting the things that I have learned from other religions and practices to what Dr. Pillai teaches, and it has been fascinating.

If the very thought of Astrology and celestial power – Quantum Physics plays a big role in this, scientifically – is too much for you right now, then it might be better for you to delve into this deeper when I have covered more of the groundwork. You can skim it, though! Nothing wrong with that.

All I know is, once I feel that I am done analyzing and parsing out the information, then I will continue. And just so that doesn’t sound too ominous and open-ended, it’ll probably take another two days, max.